Volunteer for the FSF and GNU

Volunteers are key to the success
of projects organized by the Free Software Foundation and the GNU
Project. An important part of our role at the FSF is
coordination of volunteers. People write to us to say they want to help, and we connect them with tasks that need to be done, projects that need contributors, and ideas that could be developed.

We also collect the ideas that people
send to us for new projects, resources, and campaigns. Send your ideas to us at info@fsf.org and we
will consider integrating it with this list.

Are you an activist, or an organizer?

Join our campaigns and take direct action now, head over to our campaigns center

Connect your free software user group with FSF. Write to us at info@fsf.org.

Attend local free software events and government hearings. We post these events either at http://www.fsf.org/news, or at
http://www.fsf.org/events and share them with the Free Software Supporters mailing list. Write
to us at info@fsf.org if you see an event you'd like to attend on
behalf of the FSF.

Organize member events on behalf of the FSF, either
independently or in connection with an existing event. We will be
happy to recommend speakers and provide materials and some helpful
instructions for how to do it effectively. Contact us at
membership@fsf.org with some basic information about the size and
kind of event you want to have.

Are you a writer, a ranter, a thinker, a politically minded individual?

Write a free software blog. We will be publishing blog entries from people
in the community at http://www.fsf.org/blogs. Please let us know
about free software issues that are going on in your local
community. Is your school requiring the use of proprietary
software in order to complete coursework? Do you help people in
your town convert their systems to free software? Send your
entries to info@fsf.org.

Write for our Bulletin. Twice a year we publish a printed
newsletter with articles of long-term interest to our
supporters. Much of it is written by FSF staff and board members, but we welcome
outside contributions as well. Send your article or article
proposal to info@fsf.org

Help post speech videos on audio-video.gnu.org. If you want to volunteer to do this, please write to campaigns@fsf.org.

Are you local?

Stuff envelopes. Sometimes we do mailings, and we have to stuff a
lot of envelopes. If you are in the Boston area and want to be
available on-call for this exciting work, let us know at
info@fsf.org.

Are you a news junkie, a professional web surfer?

Be an Issue Coordinator. Choose one of the issues that the FSF
focuses on or should focus on and follow it closely over time. If
you have a sustained interest in an area such as DRM, Treacherous
Computing or Free BIOS and would like to be responsible for
coordinating news gathering and posting on this topic, let us
know at info@fsf.org.

Send us links to and summaries of news stories you read about that
are related to free software. We do our best to monitor all of the
relevant news, but in the end we depend on people to write to us
and let us know that something we should be concerned about is
brewing. If you hear about something, let us know at info@fsf.org

Are you a hacker?

Help with projects on our High Priority Projects list. These are
not always GNU projects, but they are always projects that are
important to the free software world, often because they do
something that replaces a prominent proprietary program.

Are you a GNU/Linux user?

Send us information about what hardware your GNU/Linux system runs
on, to help build our searchable resource for people who want
to make sure that they are buying hardware that is compatible with
free software.

Contribute to the Free Software Directory. We have over 4,000
packages listed in the Directory already, but there are plenty
more that we don't know about yet, and sometimes the entries that
we do have fall out of date or have errors. Read the
full instructions for how to help.

Volunteer as a “Freedom Verifier” to check whether a given distribution contains only free software, so it can be included on the list of free distributions.

Are you multilingual?

Be a Translator. To help make our pages accessible to all languages, and contact
info@fsf.org if you are willing to help.

Are you a designer?

Contribute graphics and design ideas. We are always looking for
new logos and graphics to use on our web pages, in our printed
materials, and for t-shirts and other items for sale in our shop. A recent example is the logo for the GPLv3 process,
which was designed by a volunteer. If the graphics are smaller than 2 MB, you
can send them right to us, otherwise please send a link to
info@fsf.org. Here are some suggestions for future products that might inspire you.

Are you a law geek?

Be a Licensing Volunteer. Help us answer the many questions we
receive every day at the FSF regarding the use and abuse of free
software licenses. If you are interested, write to licensing@fsf.org and tell us a bit
about your background, both legal and with the free software community. Please also run through the GPL quiz and let us know how you do.